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OK, enough already. I stopped at the Sherwin Williams tore this morning (on
my way to another paint store) and checked the actual sizes on the
containers. The base for tinting is marked 3 11/16 quarts. The pre-colored
already mixed on the shelf containers is 3 27/32 quarts.

How many "gallons" of paint do they sell in a year? At a million containers
it amounts to 39,062 gallons. If the manufacturing cost is $5 a gallon,
that is $195,312 in added profits. Not bad considering the efforts of
changing a label and adjusting a filler machine.

Most of their other product are still a full gallon.